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Quotes About Technology

Everyday technology increases faster then most of us can keep up with. Knowledge, skill and expertise in equipment and machinery are growing more rapidly every day. Technology has affected societyand its surroundings in a number of ways. Remember when you were thrilled when your friend got a color TV?

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ~ Carl Sagan

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. ~ Alice Kahn

Technology ... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ~ C.P. Snow

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. ~ Clive James

The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. ~ Albert Einstein

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ~ Sydney J. Harris

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? ~ Al Boliska

We cannot get grace from gadgets. ~ J.B. Priestley

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. ~ Pablo Picasso

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. ~ Charles Dickens

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. ~ John F. Kennedy

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. ~ Henry David Thoreau

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. ~ Clive James